Manchester bomb survivor Ruth Murrell sends defiant message to all terrorists after Christchurch mosque massacres
MANCHESTER bomb survivor Ruth Murrell yesterday sent a message to all terrorists in the wake of the New Zealand mosque massacre — saying: “You’ll never win.”
Ruth, 48, said of the attack by Brenton Tarrant, which killed 50 Muslims including three-year-old Mucad Ibrahim: “Murdering innocent children is disgusting.
“For the sake of that little boy, we must not let them win.”
White supremacist Tarrant, 28, yesterday appeared in court in Christchurch charged with murder.
The guns he used were covered with scrawled messages about incidents and individuals who “inspired” his rampage, including the victims of the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal.
But Rotherham survivor Sammy Woodhouse yesterday said the gun rampage was “an evil act”.
She added: “My thoughts go out to all the victims in New Zealand. This was not done in my name.”
And Keith Chapman, mowed down by Islamist fanatic Khalid Masood in the 2017 Westminster attack, said: “We must stand united against terror.”
But we must remember they are just a minority. They cannot win.
Ruth Murrell
Ruth, who suffered serious injuries in the Manchester Arena suicide bombing, said that when she heard of the New Zealand attack she thought: “Oh my God, not again.”
She said: “It was a feeling of dread. I was immediately taken back to Manchester Arena. You understand the fear they would’ve felt, the desperation, the fact they would’ve been praying for their lives.
“I felt so angry. Once again extremists had broken into the lives of innocent, peaceful people.
“But we must remember they are just a minority. They cannot win.”
Ruth, of Blackburn sent a condolence message to her local mosque.
She said: “I drove to the local flower shop, bought some peace lilies and a card that said ‘Sometimes, words are not enough’.”
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Keith, who suffered multiple injuries when Masood’s car ploughed into him, said terror victims must stand together irrespective of race or creed.
He added: “Terrorists are the same whether Muslim extremists or right wing fascists.
“They try to cause carnage in our lives but we must not let them do it.”
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